If the Name field doesn’t show “(Me)” or you can’t select any of the popup menus, click the lock icon in the lower-right corner, and then enter an administrator account and password to complete step 4. In this case, just change the one next to “your name (Me)” to Read Only. If the Name field has an account name and “(Me)” after it, you can use the popup menus next to each entry under Name and change the Privilege popup.Change the file’s name and try to save in the same folder. Save this document to another folder and see if you colleague can save. Run Mac safe mode and see if she can save files or not. If not showing, expand the Sharing & Permissions section. To better understand this issue, we suggest you try these steps and check the outcomes: 1.

This did sync, although it can be overridden by the file’s owner (as determined by a system-level user) and by anyone with macOS administrator privileges. Jeff tested using a file-level privilege setting for the file, setting his ownership permissions to Read Only. Showing how Apple really hasn’t paid attention to this feature, if a locked file is synced through iCloud and then modified on another machine, the file on the original Mac is overwritten and left unlocked.

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